6.
Wichtige Schriften
1891: Something about bibliography
1906: On a new form of the book: the
microphotographic book
1907: The systematic organisation of
documentation and the development
of the international intstitute of
bibliography

8.
Dokumentation
„The documentary Method consist in having
recourse to documents in order to extract facts
and information for the acquisition of
knowlegde, for study or for scientific research“
(Otlet 1907, 105)

9.
Monographic Principle
= breaking down text into „its intellectually
important constituent parts, which should
then be separately recorded” (Sonvilla-Weiss 2009, 11)

10.
Monographic Principle
“The external make-up of a book, its
format and the personality of its
author are unimportant provided that
its substance, its sources of
information and its conclusions are
preserved and can be made an
integral part of the organisation of
knowledge, an impersonal work
created by the efforts of all”
(Otlet 1892, 17).

11.
Monographic Principle
“The ideal, from this point of view, would be to strip each article
or each chapter in a book of whatever is a matter of fine
language or repetition or padding and to collect separately on
cards whatever is new and adds to knowledge” (Otlet 1892, 17)

12.
Ordnung der Dokumente
„All of its materials are reducible to these four terms“
Facts interpretation of facts statistics sources
(Otlet 1892, 166)

13.
UDK
• Dezimalklassifikation
• Anspruch: „the laws of scienticif logic“ folgen
(La Fontaine/ Otlet 1895, 34)
• „[The] use of ther UDC provided implicit,
recognizable links between the files. A
number assigned to an entry in one file
automaticlly linked that entry to an entry
bearing the same ore related number in
another file“ (Rayward 1994, 239)

25.
The Mundaneum that wasn„t
„As the world goes now, on the lines of hyper-
separatism, there will soon be only
documentation to establish regular and
benevolent contact between man.“
(Otlet ???, 387 zit. nach Rayward 1977, 354)
Bildquelle: Rayward 1977, 352

26.
The Mundaneum that wasn„t
“a great colony, a universitas, with its many institutes
swarming around the central structure. And yet later
one may entertain the vision of a 'city' where each nation
will be represented by its pavillion each great special
organisation of world life, by its building... “
(Otlet 1924, 42 zit. nach Rayward 1977, 282)